The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It ruled an immediate territory within the

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which was divided between several branches. The Hohenlohes became

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s in 1450. The county was divided numerous times and split into several principalities in the 18th century. In 1806 the Princes of Hohenlohe lost their independence through

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initialized by

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, and their lands became parts of the kingdoms of

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and of

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by the Act of the

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(12 July 1806), a confederation of

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s of the

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. In 1806 the area of Hohenlohe was 1,760 km² and its estimated population was 108,000. Having lost their Imperial immediacy, the Princes of Hohenlohe still kept their private possessions. Until the German Revolution of 1918–19, just as other mediatized families, they also retained important political privileges. They were considered equal by birth (''Ebenbürtigkeit'') to the European sovereign houses. In

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and

the Princes of Hohenlohe received hereditary seats in the Houses of Lords. In 1825, the

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recognized the right of all members of the house to be styled ''

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(Durchlaucht)'', with the title '' Fürst'' for the heads of its branches, and princes/princesses for the other members.

History

The first ancestor was mentioned in 1153 as Conrad, Lord of Weikersheim, who according to some sources was the son of Conrad von Pfitzingen and his wife Sophie, illegitimate daughter of Conrad III Hohenstaufen, King of Germany. His son Conrad jun. called himself ''Lord of Hohenloch'' (or ''Hohlach''), after he moved to Hohlach Castle (no longer existing), near

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, where the family had the ''

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'' (right of escorting travellers and goods and charging customs) along the

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river on the trading route between

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and

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. His brothers Heinrich I and Albert also took on the name ''Hohenloch'' (which later was to become ''Hohenlohe''). The dynasty's influence was soon perceptible between the Franconian valleys of the Kocher,

Jagst The Jagst () is a right tributary of the Neckar in northern Baden-Württemberg. It is 190 km long. Its source is in the hills east of Ellwangen, close to the Bavarian border. It winds through the towns Ellwangen, Crailsheim, Kirchberg an der ...

and

rivers, an area that was to be called the Hohenlohe Plateau. Their main seats were Weikersheim, Hohlach and Brauneck (near Creglingen). File:WeikersheimSchloss0905.jpg, Weikersheim Castle File:Burg Brauneck 20080517 14.jpg, Brauneck Castle Conrad Hohenlohe-Siegel

Grabplatte des Albrecht von Hohenlohe (d

Heinrich I of Hohenlohe died in 1183. His younger son

Heinrich von Hohenlohe Heinrich von Hohenlohe (died 15 July 1249) was the seventh Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, serving between 1244 and 1249. He was the son of one of the richest and most powerful feudal lords in Württemberg and had four brothers and one sist ...

(d. 1249) became Grand Master of the

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. His grandsons, Gottfried and Conrad, supporters of Emperor Frederick II, founded the lines of Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe-Brauneck in 1230, the names taken from their respective castles. The emperor granted them the Italian counties of

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and Romagna in 1229/30, but they were not able to hold them for long. Gottfried was a tutor and close advisor to the emperor's son king

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. When the latter survived an assassination attempt plotted by bishop

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of Regensburg, he granted Gottfried some possessions of the Prince-Bishopric of Regensburg, namely the ''

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'' position for the

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'' at

Öhringen Öhringen ( East Franconian: ''Ähringe'') is the largest town in Hohenlohe (district) in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near Heilbronn. Öhringen is on the railline to Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim. With a population o ...

and the towns of Neuenstein and Waldenburg. Gottfried's son Kraft I acquired the town of Ingelfingen with Lichteneck Castle. In 1253 the town and castle of Langenburg were inherited by the lords of Hohenlohe, after the lords of Langenburg had become extinct. During the Interregnum the Hohenlohe sided with the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg and defeated the count of Henneberg and his coalition at the Battle of Kitzingen gaining Uffenheim in the aftermath. In 1273 Kraft of Hohenlohe fought at the

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on the side of king

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. By 1300, town and castle Schillingsfürst had also passed into the possession of the Hohenlohe lords. Hohlach later became part of the Principality of Ansbach, a subsequent state of the Hohenzollern Burgraviate of Nuremberg, to which the Hohenlohe family had sold the nearby town of Uffenheim in 1378, and Hohlach some time later. Yet, the name ''Hohenlohe'' remained attached to the county with its other territories. The branch of Hohenlohe-Brauneck became extinct in 1390, its lands were sold to the Hohenzollern margraves of Ansbach in 1448. Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe was divided into several branches, two of which were Hohenlohe-Weikersheim and Hohenlohe-Uffenheim- Speckfeld (1330-1412). Hohenlohe-Weikersheim, descended from count Kraft I (died 1313), also underwent several divisions, the most important following the deaths of counts Albert and George in 1551. At this time the two main branches of ''Hohenlohe-Neuenstein'' and ''Hohenlohe-Waldenburg'' were founded by George's sons. Meanwhile, in 1412, the branch of Hohenlohe-Uffenheim-Speckfeld had become extinct, and its lands passed to other families by marriage. George Hohenlohe was prince-bishop of Passau (1390–1423) and archbishop of Esztergom (1418–1423), serving King Sigismund of Hungary (the later King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor). In 1450, Emperor Frederick III granted Kraft of Hohenlohe (died 1472) and his brother, Albrecht, the sons of Elizabeth of Hanau, heiress to Ziegenhain, the title ''Count of Hohenlohe and Ziegenhain'' () and invested them with the County of Ziegenhain. Actually, the

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soon took the County of Ziegenhain, and the House of Hohenlohe eventually gave up the reference to Ziegenhain. However, their lordship of Hohenlohe was elevated to the status of an

y in 1495. The county remained divided between several family branches, however still being an undivided Imperial Fief under the imperial jurisdiction, and was to be represented by the family's senior vis-à-vis the imperial court. The Hohenlohes were

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s having two voices in the Diet (or Assembly, called ''Kreistag'') of the

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. They also had six voices in the Franconian College of Imperial Counts ''(Fränkisches Reichsgrafenkollegium)'' of the Imperial Diet (''Reichstag''). The right to vote in the Imperial Diet gave a German noble family the status of imperial state (''Reichsstände'') and made them belong to the High Nobility (''Hoher Adel''), on a par with ruling princes and dukes. By 1455, Albrecht of Hohenlohe had acquired the castle and lordship of Bartenstein (near

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). In 1472 the town and castle of

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were bought by the Hohenlohe family. In 1586, Weikersheim was inherited by count Wolfgang who reconstructed the medieval Weikersheim Castle into a Renaissance palace. When the last Weikersheim count, Carl Ludwig, died around 1760, his lands were divided between the Langenburg, Neuenstein and Öhringen branches; in 1967, Prince Constantin of Hohenlohe-Langenburg sold Weikersheim Castle, meanwhile a museum, to the state. The existing branches of the Hohenlohe family are descended from the lines of ''Hohenlohe-Neuenstein'' and ''Hohenlohe-Waldenburg'', established in 1551 by Ludwig Kasimir (d. 1568) and Eberhard (d. 1570), the sons of Count Georg I (d. 1551). Since Georg had become

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on his deathbed, the

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was introduced in the county and confirmed by the Peace of Augsburg in 1556. In 1667 however, a confessional division arose when the two sons of Georg Friedrich II of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Christian (founder of the Bartenstein line) and Ludwig Gustav (founder of the Schillingsfürst line), converted to the

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. After the extinction of two other side lines, Waldenburg in 1679 and Waldenburg-

in 1728, the whole property of the main branch ''Hohenlohe-Waldenburg'' was inherited by the catholic counts. Of the Lutheran branch of ''Hohenlohe-Neuenstein'', which underwent several partitions and inherited the county of Gleichen in Thuringia (with its residence in

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) in 1631, the senior line became extinct in 1805, while in 1701 the junior line divided itself into three branches, those of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen and

Hohenlohe-Kirchberg Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was a German County located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Kirchberg. It was ruled by a protestant branch of the Hohenlohe family. The county of Kirchberg was located between the territories of Brandenb ...

. The branch of Kirchberg died out in 1861, with its lands and castle passing to the Öhringen-Neuenstein branch (sold in 1952), but the branches of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (residing at Langenburg Castle) and Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen still exist, the latter being divided into ''Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen-Öhringen'' (which became extinct in 1960) and Hohenlohe-Oehringen (today residing at Neuenstein Castle). The two actual heads of the branches of Langenburg and Oehringen are traditionally styled '' Fürst''.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (german: Friedrich Ludwig Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen) (31 January 1746 – 15 February 1818) was a Prussian general. Early life Frederick Louis was the eldest son of Henry August, Princ ...

, had acquired the estates of Slawentzitz, Ujest and Bitschin in Silesia by marriage in 1782, an area of 108 square miles, where his grandson

Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Karl ''Hugo'', Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest (27 May 1816 – 23 August 1897) (German: ''Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Herzog von Ujest'') was a German nobleman, politician, mining industrialist and gener ...

, Duke of Ujest, established

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mines and founded one of the largest

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plants in the world. His son, prince Christian Kraft (1848-1926), sold the plants and went almost bankrupt with a fund in which he had invested in 1913; the mines he had still kept were, however, divided between Germany and Poland, together with

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, in 1922, and in 1945 were depropriated by communist Poland. The Roman Catholic branch of ''Hohenlohe-Waldenburg'' was soon divided into three side branches, but two of these had died out by 1729. The surviving branch, that of Schillingsfürst, was divided into the lines of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and

Hohenlohe-Bartenstein Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a German principality of the House of Hohenlohe, located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Bartenstein. Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was a partition of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and was raised from a co ...

, with further divisions following. The four catholic lines which still exist today (with their heads styled '' Fürst'') are those of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (at Schillingsfürst),

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a county in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The name Hohenlohe derives from the castle of Hohenloch near Uffenheim in Mittelfranken, which came into the possession of the descendants of Conrad o ...

(at Waldenburg),

Hohenlohe-Jagstberg Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around :File:20121230_Jagstberg_1.jpg, Jagstberg which had been a territory of the Bishopric of Würzburg. It was ruled by one of the lines of the House of ...

(at Haltenbergstetten) and

(at Bartenstein). A side branch of the House of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst inherited the dukedom of Ratibor in Silesia in 1834, together with the principality of

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in Westphalia. While the Silesian property was expropriated in Poland in 1945,

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remains owned by the Duke of Ratibor to this day, together with further inherited properties in Austria. The Holy Roman Emperors granted the title of Imperial Prince (''Reichsfürst'') to the Waldenburg line (in 1744) and to the Neuenstein (Öhringen) line (in 1764). In 1757, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated possessions of the Waldenburg line to the status of Imperial Principality.Frank. Standeserhebungen und Gnadenakte für das Deutsche Reich und die österreichischen Erblande (Senftenegg : 1967–1974): Band 2; page 221. In 1772, the Holy Roman Emperor elevated possessions of the Neuenstein and Langenburg lines to the status of Imperial Principality. On 12 July 1806, the principalities became parts of the kingdoms of

and of

by the Act of the

. Therefore, the region of Hohenlohe is presently located for the most part in the north eastern part of the State of

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(forming the counties of Hohenlohe, Schwäbisch Hall and the southern part of

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), with smaller parts in the

n administrative districts of

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and

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. The ''

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'' dialect is part of the East Franconian German dialect group and the population still values its traditional distinct identity.

Family members

Notable members of the von Hohenlohe family include: *

, 13th-century Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights * Gottfried von Hohenlohe, 14th-century Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights *

(1746–1818), Prussian general *

Louis Aloy de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (german: Ludwig Aloysius Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein; 18 August 1765 – 30 May 1829) was a Fürst, German prince and Marshal of France. He commanded a division of Austrian ...

(1765–1829), marshal and peer of France *

August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen Frederick ''August'' Charles, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (27 November 1784 – 15 February 1853) was a German general of the Napoleonic Wars and nobleman of the house of Hohenlohe. Early life August was born on 27 November 1784 in Breslau. ...

(1784–1853), general * Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1794–1849), priest *

Kraft, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (2 January 1827 – 16 January 1892) was a Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian general and military writer during the time of the German Empire. Early life Kraft Karl August zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was born ...

(1827–1892), Prussian general and writer * Victor I, Duke of Ratibor, Prince of Corvey, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1818–1893) * Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901), Chancellor of Germany *

Gustav Adolf Hohenlohe Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: *Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media * ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film * ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cart ...

(1823–1896), a Roman Catholic cardinal * Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1863–1918), Austrian statesman and aristocrat *Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1879–1958), Austrian military attache and later German spy-master. His first wife,

Stephanie von Hohenlohe Stephanie Julianne von Hohenlohe (born Stephany Julienne Richter; 16 September 1891 – 13 June 1972) was an Austrian princess by her marriage to the diplomat Prince Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, a member of the n ...

(1891–1972), was a German spy in the 1930s and at the start of WWII. * Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897–1960), husband of Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905–1981), the sister of

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Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Prince Alfonso Maximiliano Victorio Eugenio Alejandro María Pablo de la Santísima Trinidad y Todos los Santos zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (28 May 1924 – 21 December 2003) was a Spanish businessman known for his promotion of the Spanish resorts of ...

(1924–2003), founder of Marbella Club, Spain *

Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Hubertus Rudolph zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 2 February 1959; ), commonly known as Hubertus von Hohenlohe, is a Mexican alpine skier, photographer, and businessman. He was previously a pop singer using the names Andy Himalaya and Royal Disaster. ...

(b. 1959), competitive skier, singer, music producer * Philipp, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1970), grandson of Gottfried, owner of Langenburg Castle *Princess Victoria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (b. 1997), 20th Duchess of Medinaceli etc,

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, who is, with 43 titles, the most titled person in the world File:Franz von Lenbach - Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1896, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).jpg, Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901), Chancellor of the German Empire (1894–1900) File: Carl Pietzner - Konrad Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, 1915.jpg, Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1863–1918), Prime Minister of

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(1906)

Castles of the House of Hohenlohe

(*) still owned by members of the House of Hohenlohe File:Schloss und Park Weikersheim.jpg, Weikersheim Castle File:Schlosslangenburgmsu.jpg, Langenburg Castle* File:Neuenstein Schloss01 crop1edit2 2007-09-22.jpg, Neuenstein Castle* File:198810Oehringen16.jpg,

Castle File:050515-Waldenburg-Ortskern-VomBergfried.jpg, Waldenburg town and castle* File:Barockschloss Bartenstein.JPG, Bartenstein Castle* near

File:Schillingsfürst, Schloss-002.jpg, Schillingsfürst Castle* File:Ingelfingen Neues Schloss01 2008-12-28.jpg, Ingelfingen Castle File:Pfedelbach-Schloss.jpg,

Castle File:Luftbilder vom Schloss Haltenbergstetten in Niederstetten.jpg, Haltenbergstetten Castle* File:Schloss Kirchberg Jagst.jpg, Kirchberg Castle File:Kloster Rauden - Nordfassade.jpg,

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near Ratibor, Silesia (Poland) File:Corvey 2.png,

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*, Westfalia File:Grafenegg - Schloss, Nordansicht.JPG,

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Castle*, Lower Austria File:Neuaigen - Schloss (1).JPG, Neuaigen Castle*, Lower Austria

Heads of existing branches

Neuenstein line (Lutheran)

* Hohenlohe-Langenburg branch: Philipp, 10th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 1970), at Langenburg castle * Hohenlohe- Oehringen branch: Kraft, 9th Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, 5th Duke of Ujest (born 1933), at Neuenstein castle

Waldenburg line (Catholic)

branch: Maximilian, 10th Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, (born 1972), at

Bartenstein Bartoszyce (pronounced , german: Bartenstein, ; lt, Barštynas) is a town on the Łyna River in northern Poland, with 22,597 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Bartoszyce County within the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Geog ...

castle *

branch: Alexander, 2nd Prince of Hohenlohe-Jagstberg (born 1937), at Haltenbergstetten castle *

branch: Felix, 10th Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (born 1963), at Waldenburg castle * Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst branch: Constantin, 12th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (born 1949), at Schillingsfürst castle * Ratibor and Corvey branch: Viktor, 5th

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and 5th Prince of

, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst-Metternich-Sándor (b. 1964), owner of the

, Germany, and

and Neuaigen Castles, Lower Austria

Legion de Hohenlohe

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until 1831, when its members (as well as those of the disbanded Swiss Guards) were folded into the newly-raised

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for service in Algeria.

Notes

References

Genealogy of the House of Hohenlohe
* * See generally A. F. Fischer, ''Geschichte des Hauses Hohenlohe'' (1866–1871), * K. Weller, ''Hohenlohisches Urkundenbuch. 1153–1350'' (Stuttgart, 1899–1901), and * ''Geschichte des Hauses Hohenlohe'' (Stuttgart, 1904). (W. A. P.; C. F. A.) *Alessandro Cont
''La Chiesa dei principi. Le relazioni tra Reichskirche, dinastie sovrane tedesche e stati italiani (1688-1763)''.
Preface of Elisabeth Garms-Cornides, Trento, Provincia autonoma di Trento, 2018, pp. 152-156.

External links

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